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Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6) QUOTES

Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6) QUOTES

1 " For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

2 " I am in love-desire, and unless you take me now, I shall fall in pieces...but I do not think I can be moderate. Forgive me, forgive me...'

But her breathing was as changed now as his, and all order retreating before the strength of the living force beating about them. She pressed the latch, and set the last door to lie open.
'Khush geldi: welcome: thou art come happily,' she said gently, and let him come, where he belonged, within her gouvernance. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

3 " And then his true courtship of her had its beginning; and to the worship of his body, he joined the fairest garlands from the treasure-house of his mind, and made a bower for her.

Adored; caressed into delight; conducted by delicate paths into ravishing labyrinths where pleasure, like carillons on glass, played upon pleasure, she leaned on his voice, and sometimes answered it. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

4 " And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve me for ever. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

5 " You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

6 " Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past? "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

7 " My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

8 " We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

9 " Intolerance drunk is bad enough, but intolerance sober is quite insupportable. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

10 " There is no one to understand us, except ourselves. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

11 " Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

12 " One knows, when all one’s life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

13 " And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

14 " If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left and ask me to give up my mission, I will not give it up until the truth prevails or I myself perish in the attempt. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

15 " I can live alone, but it is better to have someone else to concern oneself with; to help and be helped by. There is nothing so strong as a family. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

16 " Nine-tenths of every attack is bluff. The art is to know when to call it. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

17 " The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

18 " Every other woman since Eve has asked to be loved more than honour. But not you. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

19 " I have a suggestion in that case,’ said Lymond. ‘You two have the orgy, and I’ll keep the drinker’s headache. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)

20 " This,’ said Lymond, ‘is by no means a game I will play, or consider playing. Move. "

― Dorothy Dunnett , Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles, #6)